Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA. That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive …. Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA.
That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive the glory days of Palm with this project from [sau412]. For those readers who are too young to remember, a PDA was basically a phoneless and cameraless smart-phone, and devices running Palm Corporation’s Palm OS ruled the roost for most of the 90s and early 2000s. [sau412] hasn’t written an emulator or port of Palm OS; rather he’s created his own firmware for the ESP32-based CYD that is inspired by the PDAs of yore, and has many features you’d have expected back in the day.
That includes a Gopher browser, to let you check out the undying alternative to the World Wide Web. There isn’t a general-purpose web browser, but there are RSS and Wikipedia readers, and what else do you need. There are also a passel of games and a BASIC interpreter, and the usual practical things like a calendar, calculator and contact list.
Everything from ebook readers to translators, all of it by [sau421].
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